{"id":1244,"date":"2026-04-06T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:55:02","slug":"the-menu-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/06\/the-menu-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Menu (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"themenu.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/themenu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"370\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Not sure how I missed out on The Menu back in 2022, but we watched it Sunday evening. Chock full of well known actors from John Leguizamo to Ralph Fiennes and Nicholas Hoult while including a host of other actors that you will swear that you\u2019ve seen before, but can\u2019t place where. They appear on an episode or 16 of just about everything you can watch.<\/p>\n<p>Clientele of a snobby chef who puts Gordon Ramsay to shame takes his kitchen staff to the next level. Things start out creepy as the ritzy group enters the island\u2019s dining facility and only get worse from there. There are some repeat customers sprinkled in with the mostly first timers. The gruesome reason of this particular hosting makes itself evident as the evening unfolds, proving to be their final meal.<\/p>\n<p>If you like dark comedy\/horror\/satire, then this is up your alley. If like me, you haven\u2019t seen it yet, it is well worth your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how I missed out on The Menu back in 2022, but we watched it Sunday evening. Chock full of well known actors from John Leguizamo to Ralph Fiennes and Nicholas Hoult while including a host of other actors that you will swear that you\u2019ve seen before, but can\u2019t place where. They appear on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[661],"tags":[663,315,664,662],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-satire","tag-the-menu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}